NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 440 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 6.6x more texture fill rate: 10.56 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 57% higher memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 134
  • 5.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 210 vs 40
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 September 2005 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed 440 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 10.56 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 vs 134
PassMark - G3D Mark 210 vs 40

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

  • Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
239
134
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
210
40
Name NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 134
PassMark - G3D Mark 210 40
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 575

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Essentials

Architecture Curie Rankine
Code name G70 NV35
Launch date 29 September 2005 12 May 2003
Place in performance rating 1191 1192
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 440 MHz
Core clock speed 440 MHz 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 24
Texture fill rate 10.56 GTexel / s 1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 302 million 135 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0a
OpenGL 2.1 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 35.2 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 550 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type 256 DDR
Shared memory 0